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On Sat, 2010-06-26 at 20:24 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: |
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> Hi list! |
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> I'm a bit confused about the meaning of the hal useflag on the |
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> x11-base/xorg-server ebuilds nowadays. When I deactivate it, hot-plugin |
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> a mouse does not work and special keys on the keyboard are not detected. |
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> When I enable it, everything works but several driver packages (evdev |
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> and mouse, probably others) want me to deactivate it. |
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> Does this have anything to do with me still using /etc/X11/xorg.conf and |
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> not auto configuration? Or maybe the update to Gnome-2.28? Or the |
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> general deprecation of hal? |
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> In short: Did I miss any update advice or do I have to fiddle around |
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> with the settings and useflags until something usable is found, like usual? |
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Originally Xorg required you to pretty much specify all your devices and |
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configuration in your xorg.conf file. Then the option came to use hal |
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to help with identifying, hot-plugging, and auto-configuring devices. |
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Well in general hal has fallen out of favor for reasons beyond the scope |
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of this discussion. So many softwares that used hal before are or have |
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migrated to something else, such as udev. Xorg has also chosen to do |
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this, and so the newer Xorg servers can use udev instead of hal. There |
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is a udev flag for xorg-server. You can/should use this instead of hal. |
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Using neither hal nor udev gives you the "legacy" mode where everything |
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is (must be) configured via configuration file. |
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-a |
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